Chapter 46, A View from the Hill Summary

A police sergeant, drinking in Mulvey's bar in Tyreelin, mutters something cynical about the IRA. Horse Kinnane, who hears this comment, stomps to the bathroom and punches a hole in the wall. Later that evening, a volunteer, who has just been released from a five-year prison sentence, enters the bar and is whole-heartedly welcomed by Horse and his friend Jackie. They buy the volunteer, Irwin Kerr, some shots of vodka, then drive him to Cardonagh Lake. Irwin confesses that he'd given the cops some information. Jackie shoots Irwin and they drive to the quarry and dump the corpse.

Pussy, in his prison cell, screams, "You're going to die, Daddy!...I'm going to burn your church with you inside it."

Chapter 46, A View from the Hill Analysis

In this chapter, we learn how Irwin...